Feelings of doom and gloom - Menopause Message Board

twanger · 09-13-2003, 07:22 AM

How many of you experience these feelings and how do you deal with them? I have been experiencing doom feelings for about a year now and I am getting tired of living ( if that's what you want to call it) my life this way. I don't want to take drugs because I know that I need to get on the other side of this. I just don't know how. On top of this both of my sons left for college a month ago so I am experiencing the "empty nest syndrome." I wake up in the morning and wonder what is going to do me in today. Will it be a heart attack because of the palpatations or aches and pains in my left arm. Or, maybe it will be a stroke with paralysis because everything in my body aches. Perhaps it will be kidney/bladder cancer because of my messed up urinary tract. On the other hand, maybe it will be a brain tumor because I am feeling dizzy and weak. On and on it goes until I have used up all my energy and the day has ended. I am not one to sit around. I try to walk about 4 miles a day, but at the end of the day I am not happy because I worry about all these diseases. This has only been since my periods became erratic and the hot sweats started. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that the must be perimenopause related. I hope that I can get past this because I would like to enjoy the rest of my life. If you can help I would appreciate it. Thanks.

HoosierBj · 09-13-2003, 08:07 AM

Boy, do you have company!
Ex. I was in Chicago for a play on 9/11 of all days. I was convinced that Navy Pier would be THE target, or that my bus would roll over on the toll road.
And, trust me, I'm not suicidal at all, but I'm VERY fatalistic. Like I'm "ready to go" even if that's tomorrow.
Right down to not seeing the point of me taking Lipitor for cholesterol - I mean, hey, if I'm meant to have clogged arteries and a heart attack so be it!!!

The thing is, on the other level I know just how bizarre these thoughts are, its not like it's out of depression (which I WOULD recognize) but still have that "Doom & Gloom" as you so aptly put it.

I don't tell many people about it either, although a few of those doom/gloom thoughts do get out. Everyone just tries to jolly me out of it. I think that time (and getting past all this peri/menopausal stuff) will help more!

Thanks! Maybe it's not all me!

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Moxie75 · 09-13-2003, 08:10 AM

Please read up on the nutrients needed for women during menopause and peri-menopause. They will help you belive me. I feel at times the way that you do but not as often as you. I worry about my health too every day. I take alot of supplements. Omega 3 fatty acids, B-Complex, Calcium, Magnesium, Flaxseed, Oil of evening primrose, C-Q10 and Liver Tonic, vitamin e..please read up on it..Lisa

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maddux417 · 09-13-2003, 08:20 PM

Someone on this board suggested doing a search and typing in 34 symptoms of menopause so I did and this very symptom you are taking about is listed there. Plus a lot more that I would have never have attributed to it. It helped me just knowing I was in good company.

cloverberry · 09-14-2003, 04:39 AM

I take an antidepressant and I'm not feeling bad any more. I don't like having to take drugs either but it's better than feeling so unhappy all the time.